Nancy Mann
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Nancy Robbins Mann is an American statistician known for her research on quality management, reliability estimation, and the Weibull distribution.[1][2]
Mann graduated from Chillicothe High School in Ohio in 1943.[3] She earned bachelor's and master's degrees in mathematics at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 1948 and 1949,[4] and then worked as computing staff in the National Applied Mathematics Laboratories of the National Bureau of Standards.[5]
She returned to UCLA and completed a Ph.D. in biostatistics there in 1965.[4][6] Her doctoral dissertation was Point and Interval Estimates for Reliability Parameters when Failure Times Have the Two-parameter Weibull Distribution.
She later worked for Rocketdyne,[4][1] and conducted seminars on quality control through her organization Quality Education Seminars.[6]
